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Absolutely.

Well, if you were soaked in sweat regardless of whether you were jacketed or not, surely, out of consideration for the other ball-goers, you should have kept your jacket on? Taking it off doesn't stop the old perspiration, and leaving it on saves everyone else the sight of your damp oxters/spine. I ...

Yes, what's with the Welsh teefing it? My father used to sing it when he was at school in Cornwall, and I think there was an associated song which went something like "Oh, we'll all go back to Oggy-land, to Oggy-land, to Oggy-land, oh we'll all go back to Oggy-land, where they can't tell tissue-pape...

The Coldstream Guards: Second To None

Enough to kill a horse? My boys, my boys...

Remember that Messrs Bibby and Bean have both had the dubious honour of having pulled the present Societies Officer.

GET IN THE BACK OF THE VAN!

Needs to stop posting on the Sinner and get dressed.

I wouldn't buy one - but then I'm not really a fan of coloured bow-ties generally.

Wing collars. Why can so few people get them right? There are few things more painful than seeing someone wearing a shirt with a soft, attached wing collar which barely shows above the (usually pre-tied) tie, except for two points which are for too often unironed and sticking upwards (shudder). Wing...

I daresay it will get sung at the Parliamentary Dinner, anyway.

Anyway, back to the topic in hand: striped shirts with cords?

...make sure you also buy trews which have a high "fish-tail" back to them. There are few things worse than a billowing expanse of shirt showing between where the back of the waistcoat ends and the trousers begin, and a short mess jacket provides none of the discreet cloaking of the rear-waistband a...

And who the devil are you, sir?

I thought the "not a normal way to be" comment referred to the effeminate-gay accent, which is undoubtedly an affectation and therefore not "natural", rather than to homosexuality itself.

I'm rather sorry that you think that any discussion with me is pointless, LSQ.

[s] LeopardSkinQueen wrote on 16:17, 27th Nov 2003: But were those opinions even relevant to the thread? What was the point of having a go at gay people in a thread about accents? What was the logic? It was relevant. The thread was about which accents one finds annoying, and "tintin" said that he fo...

[s]Tom Plant wrote on 08:08, 27th Nov 2003:
...unless you are either confident or simply vain enough to expose your backside quite so candidly...

Oh, I am. Both.

I agree that a white tie may be worn with a Prince Charlie jacket as the Scotch equivalent of evening dress, but I would have thought one would surely wear a kilt rather than trews in a "white tie" situation. I'm aware many eminent persons in St Andrews have favoured the Prince Charlie jacket with t...

[s] Tweedle-Dee wrote on 19:23, 21st Nov 2003: Should the convenor not wear a white tie? Only if he is also wearing full evening dress (with a stiff-fronted shirt, not a soft one, as seems to be far too common), or alternatively a white day shirt and a dark day suit. The wearing of a white tie with ...

Ladies' skirts may be made of tartan (though not, I think, the whole dress), but a tartan sash over an ordinary evening frock is the most usual way of displaying one's affiliation.

The latter.

[s] exnihilo wrote on 05:56, 20th Nov 2003: Renouf, you need to join us on MSN, cos clearly we keep similar hours. Er - righto. "Opera underscore hat at hotmail" at this end. Also, no word from you on a Glasgow visit as yet... Alas, what P.G. Wodehouse terms "a certain anaemia of the exchequer" mean...

'Cos this is Thriller, thriller night...

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